SAP Concur and Amex GBT Strengthen Their Unified Travel and Expense Platform


SAP Concur et Amex GBT renforcent leur plateforme unifiée voyage et dépenses - Depositphotos.com Auteur AllaSerebrina

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On the occasion of the SAP Concur Fusion 2026 event, SAP Concur and American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) announced new advances around Complete, their joint travel and expense management solution.

Objective: accelerate the integration of traveler and financial journeys through artificial intelligence and an enriched content offering.

Launched in October 2025 within a strategic alliance between the two groups, Complete aims to combine booking, services, payments and expense management within a single experience.


An AI connected to travel advisors

Since then, its adoption has accelerated, driven by enterprises’ demand for a smoother and smarter travel experience, according to the release.

Among the main evolutions announced, the solution now integrates a conversational platform connected to Joule, SAP’s agentic AI.

This platform is able to accompany the traveler throughout their trip, with a particular feature: an automatic transfer to an Amex GBT human travel advisor when the situation warrants, without the traveler having to switch interfaces.

The full integration of Joule is expected in the second quarter of 2026.


Expanded access to transport contents

Complete also gains a new interface dedicated to travel managers. This homepage centralizes data, management tools, approvals and duty-of-care information.

Presented as a single entry point, it should enable monitoring programs, accessing reports and anticipating budget overruns, with analytical capabilities set to be strengthened in future versions.

Another major evolution: the complete integration of the Amex GBT marketplace, giving access to more than 600 airlines and 2 million properties, as well as content from Booking.com, Expedia, NDC and GDS.

The platform also opens to more than 80 rail operators.

The two partners also announce working on a unified NDC implementation to ensure consistent and predictable access to direct airfares.


Towards full automation of expense reports

Building on the 2025 announcements, the integration between Concur Expense and Amex GBT Egencia is being realized. Reservations made via Egencia now automatically feed expense reports with prefilled data.

« Employees no longer have to re-enter their travel details, and finance teams benefit from more reliable data », states the release. This feature is slated for rollout in April 2026 after a pilot phase.

Finally, SAP Concur and Amex GBT are launching a program dedicated to business travel management (TMCs), with two levels of certification: Gold and Silver.

Business Travel: Long Lake Acquires Amex GBT


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American Express Global Business Travel a annoncé, le 4 mai 2026, avoir conclu un accord définitif en vue de son acquisition par Long Lake Management, dans le cadre d’une transaction d’une valeur d’environ 6,3 milliards de dollars.

Aux termes de l’accord, les actionnaires d’Amex GBT recevront 9,50 $ par action en espèces, ce qui représente une prime de 60,2% par rapport au cours de clôture de l’action Amex GBT le 1er mai 2026, le dernier jour de bourse complet avant l’annonce de la transaction, et une prime d’environ 65,1% par rapport au prix moyen pondéré par les volumes de l’action Amex GBT pour les 30 jours se terminant le 1er mai 2026“, selon le communiqué officiel.

La transaction devrait être finalisée au cours du second semestre 2026, sous réserve notamment de l’approbation des actionnaires d’Amex GBT et l’obtention des autorisations réglementaires requises.

Une fois la transaction finalisée, les actions ordinaires d’Amex GBT ne seront plus cotées en bourse et Amex GBT deviendra une société privée.

A noter qu’American Express, Expedia, Qatar Investment Authority et BlackRock, représentant collectivement 69% des actions de GBT, ont conclu des accords de vote en faveur de la transaction.

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Behind this acquisition, an acceleration of the transformation of business travel

The deal is financed by a combination of equity contributed by Long Lake’s existing investors and Koch Equity Development LLC (“Koch”), Koch, Inc.’s main investment and acquisition arm, and by a debt financing guaranteed by JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and MUFG.

It marks the shift of a key publicly traded player to a private model, potentially more agile in its technology investments.

Thanks to Long Lake’s applied artificial intelligence capabilities, our travel expertise, our global reach and decades of trusted relationships with clients and suppliers, Amex GBT is a driver of transformation for business travel“, stated Paul Abbott, Chief Executive Officer of Amex GBT.

The future of business travel will rest on seamless collaboration between AI and human agents, serving every traveler: shorter booking lead times, proactive handling of contingencies and simplified travel administration. In partnership with Long Lake, Amex GBT will continue to invest heavily in these technologies and maintain its status for excellent customer service” added, for his part, Alex Taubman, co-founder and CEO of Long Lake.

For reference, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) is a leader in software and services for travel, expense management and the organization of meetings and events, operating in more than 140 countries.

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